From owner-freebsd-arch Mon May 6 19:23:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146BC37B403; Mon, 6 May 2002 19:23:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0679.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.194.169] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 174udD-0005fP-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 19:23:11 -0700 Message-ID: <3CD73A71.BF0AF3A@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 19:22:41 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Robert Watson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes. References: <33534.1020505495@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 3:41 AM -0400 5/4/02, Robert Watson wrote: > >John Baldwin and I have thrown this idea around a number > >of times, as we keep bumping into things that would change > >the ABI. > > What things would those be? Might as well get them listed, > and see how many of them (if any...) could be included in > this new vector without hurting the timetable. Apart from the obvious "stat" values and time_t, there's also nlink_t, dev_t, etc.... and if we're really clever, a version number for the stat structure, as the first element. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message